No-one needs to debate that rapists, groomers and paedophiles come in all ethnicities, religions and cultures.
The salient point is that within these mainly Pakistani, almost exclusively Muslim rape gangs, there was (and still is) a pervasive culture and strongly held belief that mainly white, almost exclusively non-Muslim girls don't matter much, because no self respecting Muslim man is going to want to marry them anyway. They are tainted and dirty. They are going about unchaperoned, uncovered, often uncared for and unloved, which made them worthless kafir slags who simply don't deserve or require the same respect or consideration as Muslim girls who know their place, obey their brothers and fathers and kept themselves 'modest.' These girls were treated as sub-human playthings precisely because of those cultural and religious differences and value judgements. That's what racist and religious supremacy and entitlement looks like.
These men were not grooming very young children of any colour or creed because they were all a bunch of hopelessly perverted paedophiles. Most of the girls were past puberty and in the bodies of young women, even if they were under the age of consent. Almost all of them very vulnerable, troubled or disadvantaged in some way. These were otherwise regular men who just felt entitled to take sex from non-Muslim women and they chose to rape and groom vulnerable girls because they were easier to coerce and control.
It's nothing more than a diversion tactic to keep insisting that this 'minority' of 'paedophiles' exist in all communities, and trotting out statistics about the number of white British men compared to Muslim men convicted of sex with children, as if that's the crux of what we are dealing with here. It's not. The people who keep shouting about Islamophobia and the persecution of Pakistanis know very well it's not. But they stick to their diversion tactics anyway.
These rape gangs were highly organised, predatory and cynical. Their victims were selected, in the main, specifically because they were white and not Muslim, therefore it mattered less. They mattered less.
Try for a moment mentally flipping that to knowing that hundreds and hundreds of white men systematically and collectively targeted black girls or Asian girls because they felt they mattered less, and then tell me 'but grooming happens in every society. This isn't a race thing. No unusual pattern to see here.'
The targeting of mainly white, non-Muslim girls has come from an entirely racist, cultural and religious supremacy viewpoint, conveniently propped up by the all-too-common and accepted interpretions of Islam in relation to women, still adhered to be many to this day; how they should behave and dress, how they should be managed by their husbands, brothers and fathers, so as not to be seen as immodest or out of control or bringing shame onto the family. The white families who were not 'managing' their errant daughters and sisters properly had only themselves to blame. Girls who were not respectable enough were little better than animals and had only themselves to blame.
This atttiude was and still is pervasive in far too many Muslim men and sadly too many Muslim women too. The women are often the apologists for these men. They secretly and privately, if not openly and publicly blame white western culture for allowing these girls to invite all this upon themselves.
It is therefore virtually impossible to come to any other conclusion than that these Pakistani rape gangs operated precisely because of their patriarchal, highly misogynistic culture and value system, rooted firmly in Islam.